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There are still no signs of a new X.Org Server feature release coming in the near-term with most of the major stakeholders divesting from the xorg-server besides the XWayland portion of the code-base

Earlier this month I posted some initial CPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper up against AMD EPYC Zen 4 and Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processors.

The Bcachefs file-system that was mainlined to the Linux kernel last year has received a grant from the NLNet Foundation.

At the end of last year Intel hosted a survey of open-source developers to collect their feeback on various open-source software issues

Posted on Sunday was the third iteration of the patches working toward the threaded/atomic non-blocking console 'NBCON' support that is known to be one of the last blockers to sort out before the remainder of the Linux real-time 'RT' patches can be upstreamed.

Intel is upstreaming the necessary Lunar Lake 'LNL' graphics firmware nice and early to linux-firmware.git for their 'Xe2' integrated graphics.

The Intel 'i915' LInux kernel graphics driver has been working to wrap-up support for enabling Adaptive Sync SDP for DisplayPort (DP) for their graphics cards.

Back in January 2023 was an attempt to disable kernel drivers for Microsoft's RNDIS protocol

Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek announced the first-ever release of Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built on top of Mir.

For over two years Red Hat's engineers working on the Anaconda installer have been working on a modern web-based installer UI that integrates with Cockpit and is a modern alternative to their GTK-based installer interface for deploying Fedora Linux and eventually RHEL too